Title: Turkey Vulture Patient Update: The Raptor Center
Post by: Donna on 11-Aug-11, 01:32:09 PM
Turkey Vulture Patient Update
Remember the turkey vulture chick featured a few weeks ago? To recap, the 4-5 day old youngster was recovered from Marine on the St. Croix and could not be reunited with its parents. So, TRC helped it to get the next best thing: adoptive vulture parents housed with a rehabilitator in Wisconsin. The foster adults are permanently disabled birds that have helped raise orphan vultures in the past. They immediately took their new charge under their wings and raised it to be a hissy, feisty, ground stomping juvenile – all traits that are desirable if you are a young vulture! The bird is now about 60 days of age and will be “fledging” in the next few days. It will be put through a “hack” (slow release process), until its flying and scavenging skills allow it to be self sufficient. A Thank You to All Our Friends
A warm thank you to those who have taken time this busy spring and summer to bring in injured and orphaned raptors, or taken the time to call us and arrange rescues. If you came in to The Raptor Center, hopefully you had a moment to learn more about these amazing raptors from our staff and volunteers. You can learn more, and support the work we do, by going to our website at http://www.theraptorcenter.org/. (http://www.theraptorcenter.org/.)
Look closely! You can see that the TUVU chick is “hiding” in the hollow log.
Exam day
Remember the turkey vulture chick featured a few weeks ago? To recap, the 4-5 day old youngster was recovered from Marine on the St. Croix and could not be reunited with its parents. So, TRC helped it to get the next best thing: adoptive vulture parents housed with a rehabilitator in Wisconsin. The foster adults are permanently disabled birds that have helped raise orphan vultures in the past. They immediately took their new charge under their wings and raised it to be a hissy, feisty, ground stomping juvenile – all traits that are desirable if you are a young vulture! The bird is now about 60 days of age and will be “fledging” in the next few days. It will be put through a “hack” (slow release process), until its flying and scavenging skills allow it to be self sufficient. A Thank You to All Our Friends
A warm thank you to those who have taken time this busy spring and summer to bring in injured and orphaned raptors, or taken the time to call us and arrange rescues. If you came in to The Raptor Center, hopefully you had a moment to learn more about these amazing raptors from our staff and volunteers. You can learn more, and support the work we do, by going to our website at http://www.theraptorcenter.org/. (http://www.theraptorcenter.org/.)
Look closely! You can see that the TUVU chick is “hiding” in the hollow log. 
Exam dayTitle: Re: Turkey Vulture Patient Update: The Raptor Center
Post by: MAK on 11-Aug-11, 03:31:52 PM
:thumbsup: Just look at that fuzzball! ;D